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Support your students in developing strong reading comprehension skills with a variety of engaging activities. This collection includes worksheets, graphic organizers, and discussion questions designed to help students understand and analyze texts. By integrating these resources into your teaching, you can enhance students' ability to interpret information and draw meaningful conclusions.
A book-companion / interactive read-aloud packet built around the picture book 'A Storm Called Katrina' by Myron Uhlberg, covering reading comprehension, story elements, character analysis, plot structure, and text-to-text connections.
This is an "All Summer In A Day" Literary Scavenger Hunt. Your students will dive deeper into this suspenseful text and review key literary elements. This scavenger hunt and can printed or accessed digitally for students.
A discussion guide with nine teacher-answered questions opens this 'Bark, George!' book study, followed by project and craft ideas (a cardboard 'feed George' game, a story crown, a jigsaw puzzle), four linked YouTube videos, and a one-page nonfiction reading on veterinarians. Ten greeting signs teach 'hello' in different languages, tying into the story's ending. The bulk of the set is literacy practice: tracing, a maze, sight-word and phonics pages (words containing -RK), matching, sorting, fill-in-the-blank, and story-structure worksheets covering characters, setting, sequencing, and story elements, plus open-ended writing and drawing prompts and a design-your-own-cover activity.
Support a picture book study unit built around the story 'The Apple Pie Tree,' adaptable for Pre-K through Grade 1.
A comprehensive, multi-activity picture book study built around 'Are You My Mother?' by P.D. Eastman, covering discussion questions, craft/project ideas, non-fiction extension reading, retelling, phonics/letter practice, and writing activities for preschool through grade 1.
A film study for the movie Hidden Figures (2016) building comprehension, critical thinking, historical understanding, STEM awareness, and literacy skills around Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson.
A 31-activity reading companion packet for Andrea Davis Pinkney's picture book 'Boycott Blues: How Rosa Parks Inspired a Nation', building reading comprehension, literary analysis, and Rosa Parks/Civil Rights content knowledge.
Teach reading comprehension and character analysis using an adapted Kipling fable, across a 5-day instructional sequence.
Product Title: 4th of July Independence Day Reading Comprehension Fourth of July Activities This educational tool offers an engaging and informative approach to teaching students about Independence Day.
A reading-response book companion of over 30 distinct printable activities built around Patricia Valdez's picture-book biography "Joan Procter, Dragon Doctor: The Woman Who Loved Reptiles," covering reading comprehension skills, character/theme analysis, vocabulary, writing prompts, and extension reptile-research projects.
Are you teaching about the Declaration of Independence in your classroom? Here is an activity to help bring it alive to your students. This play will take about 20-25 minutes depending on how you present or use it in your classroom.
A digital-and-printable escape room activity for use after reading A Christmas Carol, having students analyze how Dickens used and altered Victorian history to influence his characters and message, comparing fictional portrayal to historical account.
A Jeopardy-style review game (PowerPoint and Google Slides versions) plus printable task cards covering setting, characters, plot, and theme of the novel The Giver, playable in whole group, small group, or distance-learning settings.
This play is a fun and engaging way to introduce the importance of the Mayflower Compact. The play focuses on the Mayflower being off course, the unrest between the passengers, and the resulting decision to stay in the Cape Cod area and…
2nd Grade End of Year ELA Review Worksheets & Games Make end-of-year review simple, engaging, and effective with this Grade 2 ELA Review Packet ! This printable literacy resource includes 52 skill-building activities and 5 interactive games designed to help second graders review important reading, writing, phonics, grammar, and…
This is an activity that goes along with There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Bell. If you have read this story with your students, this is an activity packet that will pair well for your little learners.
Movie-study lesson plan bundle for the 2021 film 'A Week Away', covering language/vocabulary, literary analysis, music & media literacy, cross-curricular math, and social-emotional learning through 30 structured activities.
A literacy-center activity where students read decodable sentences containing -ab word family words and match each sentence to its corresponding picture card.
A cross-curricular mini-unit teaching students about the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics, combining reading, math/graphing, social studies, research, and presentation skills.
A Bundle of 2 Fairy Tales resource consists of two fun plays for young children. Your students will delight in reading and performing the mixed-up stories. Oh, no! Instead of Little Red Riding Hood, there is the Little Gray Wolf!
Readers’ Theater: Aesop’s Fables Come to Life ! Make reading and art expression fun and meaningful ! Bring classic Aesop’s Fables to life through a delightful Readers’ Theater / Drama Mini-Play with interactive flashcards and creative…
A hands-on lapbook activity for students to reflect on and make personal connections to the novel A Christmas Carol after reading it.
A 25-part reader's-theater play retelling the Johnny Appleseed folk tale, paired with a teaching guide and student activities to build reading comprehension, character analysis, and creative writing skills.
Digital book-study slide deck (micro-learning) companion to the book 'After the Fall (How Humpty Dumpty Got Back Up Again)'.